In the three weeks since former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman revealed (and President Trump acknowledged) the existence of nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) signed by White House staffers, news networks have continued to book guests and paid contributors who have admitted to signing such agreements.

Marc Short, former White House director of legislative affairs, said the president encouraged Republican leadership to stay in town in August to finish the piecemeal government funding bills. "That [progress] benefits the president to isolate a national security or border security issue in any funding battle," Short tells CNBC.

Thanks to the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, NBC News archives, ABC News, C-SPAN, and the Clinton Presidential Library for the archival audio you heard in this episode. And an extra special thanks to Russell Riley at the Miller Center for sharing with us audio from his work on the Bill Clinton Presidential History Project.

Bipodisan heads to the campus of George Washington University this week, to hear from four former candidates for office from both sides of the aisle. All of them come from very different walks of life and are different ages — and all happen to be fascinating women. In front of a packed house, listen as they talk about what it was like to run for office, the obstacles they overcame, and some of the crazy comments they got from voters. Warning: listening might make you want to run for office, too.

The Belt and Road Forum (BRF) for international cooperation in Beijing was a historic milestone in a comprehensive and cooperative plan to reconfigure the connectivity of Asia. China has announced various initiatives to bring together all of Asia and to improve Asia’s connectivity to the rest of the world. The Belt and Road Initiative is a marker that China will come to be the center of Asia again, and it is the certain consequence of China’s rapid development. That China is returning to its historic role is beneficial to other Asian countries as well. Different from the Western world system, a system with China as its center is more accommodative and cooperative. With connectivity as its core, the Belt and Road Initiative promotes not only the connectivity between China and other Asian countries, but also between Asia and other areas. China’s relationship to ASEAN has played a special role in the evolution of this new thinking about Asia, and there is no doubt that ASEAN will be a main beneficiary of the re-centering of Asia. It is evident that the relationship between China and ASEAN is an asymmetric one, and mutual respect is required for the management of this relationship.

"Conservatives love rules about political balance—when they’re in charge," writes the Miller Center's Nicole Hemmer.